Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-08
The ResurrectiOmist Cabby.
HOW A BRITISH CABBY EARNED A TITLE FROM HIS
BROTHER JEHCS.


From the Liverpool Courier
But the funniest start / ever did hear Of"
said the patriarchai driver, "waS that that caused
a eabman, who Is dead now, to be known as the
'ResurrectionlSt-' lie was q day man and was
going home about IL o'clock with his four-wbeeler
ana mad stopped for a last drink at public house
when man who was at the bar spoke TO him
The man said he was In trouble He had lost a
child, and, being out OF employment he had no
means OF ourying II, aud OF all things he was
anxious 10 avoid The disgrace OF having 1t buried
by the parish. He had managed TO buy a cOff1n
he said, and his idea was To take 1t at nighttime
Grated ground
So And II you are agreeable to take me and the
ntiie DoS as lar as -- Cemetery he says, 4
VIII willingly give you crown Tor your trouble
"a carry IL there myself only IL might be awkward
II was stopped VIII coffin In my possession
IL was queer kind OF a job but the cabman
easy earned, and agreed ION condition that the
coifln was only a little one
was only nine months Old when she died
pretty eIeeteI SAID the chap w1ping his eyes with
coat cun, and small at that
50 the caoinan stayed at the corner and pres
sehty The chap came back with the little comm In
a black bag and with u garden SPADE hid I'M
der MS coat They drove 70 the cemetery and
round 10 ths PACK part OF 1t, and the chap having
pul cue conin and the spade over the palings,
Climbed over himself. He wasn't very long gone
anu when he returned he gave the cabman q
crown,
Il shan't ride back with YOU saws he. the lob
mas upset my nerves, and shall be the better for
| b.
so he went on, and the cabman. beginning BY
TINS time TO think there was Something wrong
about the business. took one of his Lamps aud
looked into the cab and there on the mat was a
Iauy goio neckiet new, and with the shop ticket
sttl on II, and al odd EARRING as well which was
also new de was quite sure now that there was
something wronS, and after having a short drive
round while he thought 1t over, he came back
70 the cemetery paiings ana got over at the same
spot the chap had taking lamp with him and
found as ne had expected, that it was easy TO
trace the footsteps In the soft earth from the
place where the chap had jumped, and he traced
on tiii they came 10 an end, and then kicked up
the loose soil, and hardly a foot deep was
the lttle comm buried ia the bag. AS soon as he
lifted IL he was made aware by ciinkin0 sound
inside that he was not far out in his suspicion
and without staying TO open IT TO see he drives
with II straight TO the police station and there Il
was round that IL contained more than goo worth
Of Jeweiry that had been stolen from shop at the
West End few nights before; and the chap got
took on the cabmans description OF him and re-
ceiyed seven years. and the cabman who was ever
aIterward known as The Resurrectionist he got
fl00 from the Jeweler; and there Is NO doubt the
money was the death OF him." said the narrator,
when, the meeting breaking up, we all rose to take
our leave. Its got him into drinking habits and
he never got ont OF EN- till they settled him.